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Leveraged resources

All resources used to support nutrition or physical activity supports or standards. These resources may include funding, staffing, and in-kind contributions such as physical space and services.

Local

Relating to or occurring in a particular area, city, or town.

Local education agency

A public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or for a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.

Local food production

Food is grown or raised and harvested close to consumers’ homes, then distributed over much shorter distances than is common in the conventional global industrial food system.

Low food security

In a given household, report of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet, but the quantity of food intake and normal eating patterns are not substantially disrupted.